Shocking News: Bolton Did His Job

A certain level of idiocy must be required to be hired by the AP.

Bush agenda came 1st for Bolton at U.N.

Considering he was appointed by Bush, why wouldn't he follow his agenda? Does loyalty mean anything?

When U.S. Ambassador John Bolton took over the presidency of the U.N. Security Council in February, he started meetings promptly at 10 a.m. even if some seats were empty and kept a list of latecomers, not the usual diplomatic behavior.

For Bolton, the fine points of diplomacy took a back seat to his aggressive pursuit of President Bush's global agenda. Those efforts ranged from pressing for sanctions against North Korea and Iran to installing U.N. peacekeepers in conflict-wracked Darfur and overhauling the 61-year-old
United Nations so it can meet the challenges of the 21st century.

He arrived at the United Nations in August 2005, a controversial figure appointed by Bush during a Congressional recess because he twice failed to be confirmed by the Senate. He resigned Monday still a controversial figure, admired for his negotiating skills and for making the 15-member council more punctual but criticized for his style.

Oh, the horrors. Having to show up at 10 a.m., a mighty hardship for the hard-partying scum at the U.N.

Meanwhile, the NY Post today weighs in on the travesty.

Certainly Democrats were chortling over Bolton's resignation. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), a likely '08 presidential candidate, called on the White House to "put forward an individual who believes in diplomacy."

But diplomacy as practiced at Turtle Bay is typically just a cover for an essentially anti-American, anti-Western agenda.

John Bolton understood that.

And tried to do something about it.

Thanks to his opposition, Washington is not a part of the new Human Rights Council - which already has been exposed as a platform for the world's most repressive governments, rather than a voice for justice.

(Democrats wanted the administration to embrace the council. Bolton simply refused to join what he rightly labeled a case of "putting lipstick on a caterpillar and calling it a butterfly.")

Save for Bolton, the United Nations might never have begun facing up to the Oil-for-Food scandal - the biggest case of financial corruption in history.

Little wonder, then, that outgoing Secretary-General Kofi Annan responded to Bolton's resignation with some back-handed criticism, claiming that ambassadors "need to work with each other for the organization to move ahead."

Business as usual, in other words.

Yes, in other words, more virulent anti-American bilge seeping out of the cesspool.